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Lighthouse said its therapy centers primarily serve patients with acute autism, that it has no minimum required level of therapy, and that it refers about 10% of prospective patients—generally ones with lesser needs—elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Faded stars could scrape out a second act in B-movies and lesser studio offerings without losing the prestige of the silver screen.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
Policy wonks are not typically famous: If they are, that fame is restricted to a league of Beltway professionals—famous in the way that really good brain surgeons are famous to other, presumably lesser brain surgeons.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
Pike's legal team, meanwhile, are calling on Tennessee Governor Bill Lee to commute her punishment to the lesser sentence of life in prison without parole.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
It was used by patrols or by messengers going swiftly to lesser posts and strongholds north-away, between Cirith Ungol and the narrows of Isenmouthe, the iron jaws of Carach Angren.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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